Clint Eastwood

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."

"You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good."

"Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society."

"I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair."

"I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you."

"I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy."

"I've had no problem harnessing anger."

"Men must know their limitations."

"Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer."

"My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over."

"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."

"Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power."

"The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about."

"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."

"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."

"We boil at different degrees."

"What you put into life is what you get out of it."

"Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt."